Thursday, May 15, 2008

Gardening

Yesterday was a day of gardening. In the back of our garden we used to have some beautiful, tall trees, which sadly had to be cut down due to their far too tall height. Oh, how I felt sad the day they fell to the ground!!
(Luckily we still have the marvellous lilacs to be dazzled by...)
As the trees took a whole lot of space while they were there, we now have some new areas to "add" to our garden. We have decided to sow grass in it, plant some more fruit tress, build a little shed for our gardentools and lay out a little space where we can sit and enjoy the children make a bonfire.
But at first the soil must be digged and that process has taken us a while...we have started, however, and yesterday Otto and I had so much fun (!!) - at least Otto did - pulling up grass, raking and so on.....
Every time I digged up a tussock Otto was ready to take it and run away with it, after having given it a good shake....

All of a sudden a tiny toad jumped out of nowhere...I hate any kind of frogs or toads, but at the same time I find them extremely fascinating, so I had to take a picture of it!! Such a suspicious character!

Otto totally ignored it, eventhough it was only 8-10 centimetres from his nose - no wonder (and I have heard that a toad doesn't smell that nice either!)